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Is Cinedigm A Digital Cinema Bellwether?

The time before, during and after any motion picture industry trade show is one filled with an endless stream of press releases. Any journalist covering the space receives dozens, if not hundreds, of emails from marketing departments and publicists during these periods filled with press releases. At…

Cinema Digitaal and Arts Alliance Media

Cinema Digitaal Selects Arts Alliance Media For Netherlands D-Cinema Rollout

Cinema Digitaal, the organization overseeing the rollout of digital cinema in the Netherlands, has selected Arts Alliance Media to as their integrator to convert more than 500 screens throughout the country to digital. Under the exclusive arrangement AAM will install and maintain digital cinema equi…

Cinema Exhibitors' Association and XDC

CinemaCon 2011: Digital Funding Partnership Pacts With XDC For D-Cinema Deployment In UK

At the outset of CinemaCon this past Monday Steve Perrin gave an interesting presentation titled “Harnessing The Power of the VPF”. As the Chief Executive of Digital Funding Partnership (DFP) Perrin is in a position to know a thing or two about virtual print fees. He’ll have some h…

Kodak Laser Projection System

Kodak Gets FDA Approval For Laser Projection Technology

[/caption] Kodak’s plans to create a light engine for digital cinema projectors that can compete with Texas Instruments DLP chip reached a crucial milestone earlier this week. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the variance application clearing the way for the commercialization of…

Dutch Cinemas To Go Digital By 2012

Less than a year after the formation of The Foundation for Digitizing Dutch Cinema (Stitchting Digitalisering Nederandse Cinema), the group has found some of the financing required to convert Netherlands’ cinemas to digital. The organization was formed in July of this year by the Dutch Associa…

IBC Highlights Developments In Digital Cinema

[/caption] There is no question that the IBC conference, held annually in Amsterdam, is primarily aimed at broadcasters and those that supply or service them. After all, the B in IBC stands for broadcasters. However, the conference has always managed to find room for the motion picture industry in s…

Screen Digest’s David Hancock Discusses Europe’s D-Cinema Funding Shortfall

[/caption] On June 21st, just in time for Cinema Expo, Screen Digest published a report titled “Digital Cinema Moves Into The Mainstream“. Twelve pages in length and with 10 tables and charts, the report uncovered a significant “digital shortfall” in the amount of financing r…

Director’s Fortnight Highlights Digital Divide

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNwO3HtACkw[/youtube] Last night I had the privilege of attending the opening night of the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. The film being shown was “Benda Bilili” a fantastic…

Texas Instruments On Track With 4K

Both at ShoWest and in the weeks leading up to the conference, I was able to speak with some of the folks over at Texas Instruments working on the company’s digital cinema offerings. They were happy to report that development of their 4K chip was right on schedule and some of the first 4K DLPR…

SmartJog Continues Partnership Spree With XDC and Fox

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that SmartJog has been on a roll lately when it comes to partnerships? After announcing an agreement with Ymagis in February, they formed a partnership with XDC just before ShoWest and earlier this week entered into a deal with Twentieth Century Fox to deliv…